Thales' Oasis

Sapere Aude

Friday, May 20, 2011

Morning

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I feel sick with an unbearable pain. Excruciating, it calls my attention to dark places ignored, now flooding with suffering. Lying in th...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Eros Lost

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Lovely abstraction, I try to find you in the waves but You were drowned long ago. I can still feel you struggling for air, Can still feel th...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Darkness

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"The second stage is like this: When God has drawn a person so far away from all things, and he is no longer a child and he has been st...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

A Refutation of the Coherence Theory of Truth

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Davidson famously made a supposed knock-down argument against the correspondence theory of truth. It came to be known as the sling-shot argu...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A Reconsideration of Teleology

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In recent months I've been forming some serious doubts about the idea that teleology is something real in nature. Part of the reason for...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Dualism, Materialism, and Religion as a Language

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Recently I've been thinking a lot about the language used by the average western religious person to describe material reality. Typicall...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Some Thoughts on Prayer and Falsifiability

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Lately, for various reasons, I've been thinking about the idea of prayer. As a Christian-turned-agnostic, prayer is of particular intere...
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I am an Orlando college student majoring in philosophy. The areas I am primarily interested in are metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. This blog will primarily discuss issues related to those topics, but I'll sometimes put up poetry, political thoughts, and the like.
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